Nicholas Reicher

The Writer’s Guide to Fight Scenes V

Yesterday, we covered Okinawan Karate. Japanese Karate to a certain extent was derived from the first few years of Funakoshi’s students, who transformed it…

The Writer’s Guide to Writing Fight Scenes IV

Okinawa Okinawa is the birthplace of Karate. There are at several major styles of Karate that arose in Okinawan. The histories differ on whether…

The Writer’s Guide to writing fight Scenes III

Okay, we’ve covered western fighting arts in the first two installments, and then we covered the history of Asian arts yesterday up to its…

The Writer’s Guide to Writing Fight Scenes II

I’d like to recap some of what we learned yesterday. Unarmed fighting techniques fall into three categories – Atemi-Waza (percussive strikes and kicks), Nage-Waza…